AWARD for : Most incompetent Treasurer never to have got a budget through .......

[fourandsixpants]

.....wait for it.....Goes to....!!!!!!

maybe when Joe ends up losing his job he could apply to be the face.....(or another body part) for JCraig

[***super_nova*** · Accepted solution]

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@poddster wrote:

You  have a short memory.

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The only reason LNP balanced budget was because they sold everything, and yes you are right we did not experience GFC, because our government invested heavily and made sure employment stayed low.  But never mind, present government is doing its best to devastate our manufacturing, so do not worry in no time at all we will catch up with the rest of the world.  If  Hockey tries bit harder we might even outdo them.

[fourandsixpants]

blowhard

ˈbləʊhɑːd/

noun

North Americaninformal

noun: blowhard; plural noun: blowhards; noun: blow-hard; plural noun: blow-hards

1. a boastful or pompous person.

   

[fourandsixpants]

ref. my post #8   please *add this to it.....last page of report      http://fsi.gov.au/files/2014/04/Name_withheld_1.pdf

under Recommendations

Government annual budgetary considerations should be determined in the context of unemployment and inflation, and should not be influenced by aggregate government debt levels. The objective of the government’s fiscal policy should be formalised in a similar manner to the description of the RBA’s duty

 Monetary policy and fiscal policy are not independent. A mechanism should be found to allow both to operate in a co-ordinated manner and formalise the equivalency of their objectives

 Mandatory contributions to superannuation should be reduced or stopped

 Banks are quasi-public entities operating in a less than fully competitive environment and bank profitability should be regulated to reflect this. Allowing increased bank competition to reduce profitability is not desirable for financial stability.

*Responsibility for spending on Australian infrastructure should fall to a greater extent on the federal government and should be managed in the context of the government’s objectives with respect to unemployment and inflation.

Infrastructure spending should form part of the government’s budgetary position.

Further consideration should be given to mechanisms by which the government can support private sector infrastructure investment (including subsidies, tax breaks, guarantees and other forms of support) that further public policy in terms of infrastructure, employment and inflation

[fourandsixpants]

[village_person]

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@poddster wrote:

You  have a short memory.

This one couldn't balance a budget in 6 years

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The disingenuousness of your post rankles most Australians. One of Mr Swan's budgets created 500,000 jobs. Well it didn't happen really but why remove the right to dream from our politicians.

[boris1gary]

[debra9275]

Nova, I'd forgotten about that,

yes Costello did sell off our gold reserves at rock bottom prices, just before the commodity boom

clever not!

I wonder if the recent commodity fall is all labors fault too 

[lurker172602]

You're all missing the point. The OP is nothing about balancing the budget. Hockey can't even get his toxic budget passed!

[fourandsixpants]

Thank you Lurker.

yes.....it is true 

Hockey can't even get his toxic budget passed! 

[fourandsixpants]